Family Vacation Day 1

Today was a fairly laid back day. Daniel woke up at 5.30 am, but I didn't hear him till about 6.15 am. I tried to go back to sleep, but that didn't work out and so I decided to get up around 7 am. Kenny and Bernd went to Enterprise car rental in Valencia, to put my brother-in-law on the rental additional driver. Bernd got back between 9 and 10 am. At that time Daniel went to sleep and I just hung out with my family and got a chance to chat with them. We had left over Pizza for lunch. Once Daniel was up again we went over to Valencia to Whole Foods to do some grocery shopping. We spent quite some time at Whole Foods and grocery shopping with kids is always quite and adventure. Bought a lot of 'healthy' stuff and should be good with groceries for a several meals. On the way back we stopped at a Ralphs to pick up some junk food. After that we went back home.

While driving back Daniel fell asleep in the car. My sis didn't want to wake him up and stayed with him in the car. With 2 doors open the the thermic afternoon winds picking up it was fine. Every member of my family was still dealing with the aftermath of jet lag and they all decided to turn in and take a nap. In such and situation I would have normally spent in front of my iMac to check on my regular computer stuff, but since we use our office currently as bedroom, that wasn't an option. So I Daisy and I hung out in the Master Bedroom and watched some TV. Apparently Daisy and I must have fallen asleep, because Daisy woke me up when she barked at a driving by UPS Truck. Shortly thereafter I got up and so did my brother-in-law. Roughly about 1/2 hour later my mom got up and a short time later my sis came in with Daniel.

Again we hung out and chatted a little. Daisy was doing exceptionally well with Daniel and Leonhard and even allowed Bernd to pet her. I'm very proud how Daisy is doing. On the one hand she will be turning 14 this year and on the other hand shy and reserved towards strangers. But I guess as long as you're kid you can get away with a lot of things. If it gets too much for her, she just walks away.

later we made a vegetarian dinner. Zucchini with roasted Tofu in Tomato sauce. It was quite delicious. Around 8.30 Kenny got back from work. Since he doesn't like veggies he headed out to have dinner at the local Jack in the Box. I forgot to tell him that there was only vegetarian food and that there wasn't much else at home and I felt quite bad about that.

Kenny got back from dinner about40 min. later. Shortly after that my family turned in and Kenny and I went to watch some of our regular TV.

All in all it was a good and fairly relaxing Day!